Child's, The English And Scottish Ballads

Volume 6 of 8 from 1860 edition - online book

Baith dae and rae, and harte and hinde, And of a' wilde bestis great plentie;

He heard the bows that bauldly ring, And arrows whidderan' hym near bi.

Of that feir castell he got a sight;es

The like he neir saw wi' his ee ! On the fore front o' that castell feir,

Twa unicorns were gaye to see ; The picture of a knight, and ladye bright,

And the grene hollin abune their brie.w

Thereat he spyed five hundred men, Shuting with bows on Newark Lee ;

They were a' in ae livery clad,

O' the Lincome grene sae gaye to see.

His men were a' clad in the grene,is

The knight was armed capapie, With a bended bow, on a milk-white steed,

And I wot they rank'd right bonnilie: Thereby Boyd kend he was master man,

And served him in his ain degre.so

63, Scott, bhios: Aytoun, bows.

a steep descent on the south side of Minch-moor, which separates Tweeddale from Ettrick Forest; and from the top of which we have the first view of the woods of Hanging-shaw, the Castle of Newark, and the romantic dale of YaiTow.—S.